When Ariadne Oliver attends a children's Hallowe'en party in Woodleigh Common with her friend Judith, a young girl Joyce Reynolds boasts of having witnessed a murder years before. Joyce's story is heard by all the party, including her strange brother Leopold, the impeccable hostess Rowena Drake, her bookish son Edmund and the local Reverend Cottrell. Miss Whittaker, the church organist, and Frances Drake, Rowena's feisty daughter, are dismissive of her story but later that evening Joyce is found drowned in an apple-bobbing bucket in the library. It appears that any one of the guests could have slipped out in the dark during the snapdragon game and drowned her. Hercule Poirot arrives in Woodleigh Common at the request of his friend Ariadne to investigate the murder.
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